Comrade Kursky!

N. P. Gorbunov informs me that you refused over the telephone to draft a declaration of civil rights ("proclamation of fundamental property rights," according to the text of the Politburo resolution of 22/III 364) and that you cited "the cancellation of the retreat."

I am compelled to point out to you that such a justification is mockery and that the foot-dragging displayed and being displayed by you is inadmissible.

I propose that you submit a draft declaration of civil rights to Comrade Tsiurupa within a maximum of two days, that is, no later than Monday morning.*

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

31/III - 22

copies

First printed in 1959

in Lenin Collection XXXVI

Printed from typescript